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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/switching-antibiotic-resistance
April 14, 2016
If we are to stay abreast in our ongoing race against bacteria, with their continuously evolving strategies for thwarting our antibiotics, we desperately need new ways of addressing antibiotic resistance. Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, which recently appeared in S...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sealed-vessel-walls-protect-stem-cells
April 20, 2016
At any one time, some of the blood-forming stem cells in the bone marrow are living quiet, sheltered lives, while others are busy differentiating into blood cells and moving into the bloodstream. How does the bone marrow offer protection to some of its stem cells while at the sam...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/heart-cells-regenerated-mice
April 13, 2015
When a heart attack strikes, heart muscle cells die and scar tissue forms, paving the way for heart failure. Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, in part because the cells in our most vital organ do not get renewed. As opposed to blood, hair, or skin cell...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/learning-without-one’s-knowledge
May 4, 2016
Weizmann Institute scientists have shown that it’s possible to launch a directed learning process in someone’s brain while that person is unaware that any learning is taking place at all. In a study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, post...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/time-and-place
May 9, 2016
When we think back, we often tend to place past events on a timeline. We can recall the order in which we did our errands last week or mentally retrace the travels we undertook last summer. In other words, our brains routinely link the memory of different places and events to a p...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/fat-genes-algal-viruses-facilitate-infection
May 10, 2016
All living things – from single-celled algae to our own bodies – are vulnerable to attack by viruses. Dr. Assaf Vardi and his team recently revealed a new mechanism by which viruses infect a marine alga. The results of this research, which appeared in Proceedings of the National...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ruth-arnon-5
October 6, 2015
Prof. Ruth Arnon, Appointed as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-jacob-klein-6
October 6, 2015
Prof. Jacob Klein, Recipient of the 2015 MRS David Turnbull Lectureship....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/2015-ivs-award-prof-jacob-sagiv
October 6, 2015
Prof. Jacob Sagiv, Recipient of the 2015 IVS Award for Excellence in Research....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/american-chemical-society-award-prof-avi-hofstein
August 18, 2015
Prof. Avi Hofstein, Recipient of the Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society....
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